Our visit to this extraordinary villa was very memorable! The host, James was extremely kind and very helpful with details and information regarding the villa and local surroundings. The views are outstanding and ground were impeccable! The interior was very impressive but yet comfortable and very clean. Highly recommend this villa to anyone who wants to create memories that will last a lifetime! Thank you James for sharing.
4 of us (adults/friends) stayed the month of April at the villa. James was the very best attentive host we could have ever asked for. Would definitely give this a 5 star rating!
This Villa is the perfect get away. It is quiet, private, and relaxing. The views of the coast are spectacular! The home is very special. The decor is fun! It is very comfortable and spacious. We enjoyed the patio especially in the mornings.
James was very helpful and accommodating.
We had an excellent stay!
Outstanding hospitality in a beautiful home-from-home
The house is beautiful: light, bright and spacious; spotlessly clean; very comfortable; and with everything you could want for your stay. The garden and the view are stunning, and the heated pool is wonderful. James was a warm, welcoming and communicative host. He really made us feel that nothing was too much trouble.
This truly is a highly recommended holiday rental!
Plenty of space in this beautifully designed Portuguese villa - not only to get away from the crowds but also your fellow guests!
Very quiet, great views.
Restaurants a 5 minute drive, a huge supermarket with plenty of fresh sea food and meat and veg an easy 10 minutes.
The wonderful Atlantic coast makes a wonderful day out- Bordeira beach out favourite.
Can highly recommend.
Absolutely stunning villa high in the mountains just outside Monchique , beautiful views down to the coast with facilities that would satisfy all requirements. The pool is large and lovely and warm and the kids loved the slide. Villa is spacious, three en-suite double bedrooms, master to die for. Outside BBQ, fire and seating are great especially in the evenings and there is a fully equipped kitchen and separate utility room. Met by the owner James - a pleasure to deal with. Canât recommend this highly enough.
We are three couples who stayed here for an 11-day vacation in September 2022. The roomy villa and its pool and grounds are beautifully maintained with a lovely view. The outdoor seating area off the kitchen has an outdoor fireplace which we used on cooler evenings. You DO require a vehicle as itâs a 10 minute drive into Monchique for groceries and about a 45 minute drive to the south coast. Itâs a good location for exploring the southwest Algarve or not going anywhere and just relaxing. James was welcoming and very easy to communicate with. We highly recommend!
We spent a week in this beautiful house that really exceeded our expectations. It was spotless and offered many amenitieis.
We also loved the large pool and the slide! Men become little boys again. The garden is large and very well kept, and the view is stunning.
Unfortunately, the weather was a bit capricious, so we needed to heat the pool for a couple of days which made it even more wonderful to use.
James is a super and helpful host - ready to make everything pleasant for us.
We can highly recommend this house which James has built with love and passion. Great job.
Unique and beautiful house in the mountains. An attentive host.
Six of us, three couples, spent a week in James' villa during the last week of February. The weather, unfortunately, was unusually wet and at times foggy, so we didn't get the benefit of the magnificent grounds and vistas to the south except intermittently. We loved the house, especially the spaciousness and grandeur of the main room with its two fireplaces, where we burned more than our share of the wood that James provided. Day trips to different towns on the coast, from Tavira to Sagres were easy to organize. The Intermarche in Monchique was a convenient supermarket for stocking up daily on food and wine at very reasonable prices. All in all a memorable stay!
Two couples very much enjoyed our stay in this amazing place. The pool was wonderful and the villa very comfortable. We had a few problems with mosquitoes at night when the wind dropped but the owner has indicated heâll fit nets over the beds in future. Weâd certainly be happy to stay here again!!!
Sehr schönes Anwesen, sogar schöner und eindrucksvoller als in den Bildern zu erkennen. Allerdings liegt die Relva de Cima auf ca. 600m. Höhe am Berg Foia, d.h. es ist sehr ruhig und abgeschieden sowie nur mit einem Auto zu erreichen. Wir waren diesen August fĂŒr 2 Wochen mit 6 Personen dort. Jedes Zimmer hat ein eigenes Badezimmer und ist sehr geschmackvoll eingerichtet. KĂŒche und Wohnzimmer sind sehr groĂzĂŒgig , vermitteln den Eindruck eines Gutshauses. Der groĂe Garten (Park) ist wundervoll angelegt, der Pool lĂ€sst keine WĂŒnsche offen. Ich denke so kann man leben und werde wiederkommen. GruĂ aus HH
Immaculate! Spacious & well equipped. The slide by the pool is an inspired feature, even Grandad went down it! We were a family group, Nana, Grandad, Aunt, Neice & great neice and nephew (9 & 12). Nobody wanted to leave! đ
Wir durften mit 2 befreundeten Familien mit je 1 Teenagerkind in dieser wunderschönen Villa unseren Urlaub verbringen. Alles war einfach traumhaft und perfekt. Angefangen mit dem problemlosen Self-Check-in, da wir erst spĂ€t in der Nacht ankamen. Der Pool war nicht nur fĂŒr die Kinder einer der Highlights, auch wir Erwachsenen haben die Rutsche ausprobiert, was kein Problem war. Die 5 Schlafzimmer sind soweit im Haus verteilt, dass man sich niemals gestört fĂŒhlt. Die Elternschlafzimmer haben Ventilatoren an der Decke, das war klasse. Das FrĂŒhstĂŒck auf der groĂen Terrasse direkt an der voll ausgestatteten KĂŒche haben wir immer genossen. Man hatte einen atemberaubenden Blick zur KĂŒste. Zur nĂ€chsten Einkaufsgelegenheit (Intermarche in Monchique) sind es mit dem Auto ca. 8-10 min, so dass wir alles dort besorgen konnten. James war ein perfekter Gastgeber, mit vielen Informationen vor unserer Anreise und vor Ort sehr diskret, aber falls Hilfe benötigt wĂ€re, schnell zur Stelle. Vielen Dank, dass wir in dieser tollen Villa GĂ€ste sein durften. Wir kommen gerne wieder.
The owner was communicating with us, gave us all needed details. The property is beautiful and clean. With a big pool. There is nothing missing. The view is great, you can see the sea. I can only recommend it.
Everything we expected and more. Property is beautiful James was a pleasure to communicate with from start to finish and whenever we had any questions he answered them really quickly. We would definatly stay here again.
Thank you James.
Jamesâ home in Monchique is beautiful and it is clear he has spent years making it a perfect destination. It is exactly as described and even more wonderful than the photos make it appear. James is an incredibly kind host who went out of his way to help and make sure we had a great stay. We would love to come back again!
We spent a wonderful 8 days in this gorgeous villa - light, airy and very comfortable with all of the requirements provided for. Beautifully and tastefully restored and lovingly cared for, both the grounds and the house itself. The house was spotlessly clean with all of the utensils and equipment that you may need. James was there to welcome us and provided us with all the information required for our stay and was very responsive and helpful when contacted. We loved the pool, even though it was getting just a bit chilly with the time of year and temperature. We had been hoping for a peaceful and relaxing stay away from all of the hullabaloo of the Algarve itself, but with the various amenities not too far away and Relva de Cima was perfect for this and our first visit to Portugal - hopefully not our last!
Hard to define with just a few words.
The property is fantastic, the views are stunning, the country but stylish design and cosy furniture make the stay extraordinary.
The house was super clean and the owner is a great host giving you the right amount of info to let you run the house as if it was yours.
He is right away but makes you feel he is there for whatever incident or need you may have.
If we must search a snag⊠one night, out of the seven we stayed there; he had a long fight with the mosquitos. Carry your repellent and insecticide if you suffer with the bites.
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OBRIGADA JAMES!!!!!
A three week holiday in 1993 travelling the length and breath of the Spanish and Portuguese coastline was my introduction to Portugal and enough to realise, Monchique was for me. I made an offer on the property and a month later was the proud owner of a broken down vacated farm house â My retirement project! We moved from the bustle of Hong Kong and started the decade build in 2000 whilst watching my son grow up and enjoying our beautiful surroundings. I feel very fortunate.Â
I was looking for a getaway. I had spent 20 years working very hard and was suffering from a mild form of ME. I knew I could not go on forever. Monchique, or the change in my lifestyle, gave me what I was looking for.